medicated sheep feed

[SheepGirl]

Show lamb grower is normally used to feed 4-H market lambs. If I remember correctly it has more fat & protein in it and also other ingredients/supplements in it to make the muscles look bigger and feel firmer. It's also a lot more expensive than regular sheep feed.

But it's fine if you've already opened the bag.

Medicated feed is fine, and I think the goat dosage for DX is the same as the sheep dosage. But don't quote me on that because I'm no goat expert

 

[bonbean01]

Yes, a treatment shute would be helpful. We have bad backs here, so had our local welder guy made us a tilt table for trimming hooves...that makes it so much easier. We use it for drenching too...just walk them in and close the door...drench, check them over and not tilt the table unless their hooves need work. Those tilt tables are expensive, but this guy made it from photos we printed off the internet. He liked a gun that hubs had...can't remember if it was a shotgun or rifle...and they made a trade for the tilt table.

Have you checked eyelids to see if they are pale? Could be they need worming and there was no problem with their original feed?

 

[20kidsonhill]

To answer your first question, we have fed medicated sheep feed to our goats, It wont hurt them. Which coccid medicine is in your feed. At 20.00 for a bag you are paying show feed prices, seems like you should be able to find a medicated grower feed that doesn't cost quite that much. Of course there is a reason the show feed is that high, often has more minerals and better quality fat in it than your cheaper grower feeds.

We paid 21,00 for our goat show feed, and around 13.00 for a bag of medicated developer prebagged at the co-op.